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Influenza in 1918: An Epidemic in Images - 1 views

  • In army camps and cantonments, in hospitals, and in streets and workplaces across the nation, photographers aimed their lenses and captured a nation struggling to deal with the crisis.
  • In the fall of 1918, against the tragic backdrop of war and disease,
  • That said, even a small sample of America and Americans in the midst of the great influenza pandemic of 1918 is a powerful message indeed.
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  • Some four million men were mobilized in the U.S. Armed Forces. Training camps and stations were often overcrowded. Soldiers and sailors routinely were packed on to passenger trains and sent to training stations and bases around the nation
  • When influenza struck the United States in the fall of 1918, it almost universally appeared in military populations before hitting civilian communities. Medical officers attempted to contain the epidemic through a host of measures, including nasal-pharyngeal sprays for all troops, quarantine of new arrivals, and isolation of cases in camp hospitals or special emergency
  • As the influenza epidemic raged, scientists and physicians struggled to isolate the causative microbe and to develop an effective vaccine against it.
  • Quacks and naysayers, on the other hand, advocated a host of alternatives such as raw onions rubbed on the chest, creosote baths, and the consumption of large quantities of brown sugar. Some—including several city health officers—claimed that a clean heart, clean bowels, or warm feet were all that was needed to stave off influenza.
  • Health officers, mayors, and city councils ordered theaters, movie houses, dance halls, saloons, schools, churches, and other places of public gathering to close for the duration of the epidemic.
  • In the three decades after 1890, nearly 24 million immigrants arrived on the shores of the United States
  • Seattle saw a drastic drop-off in the number of marriage license applications during the epidemic (although, interestingly, the number of divorce filings increased).5
  • World War I did not just affect soldiers, sailors, and Marines. On the home front, civilians were expected to contribute to the war effort as well by self-rationing food, fabric, gasoline, and other goods, and by purchasing Liberty bonds.
  • people in close proximity to one another. In the East, where the deadly fall wave
  • American Red Cross, the Visiting Nurse Association, the Blue Circle Nurses, the Public Health Nurses, and others played a vital role during the influenza epidemic, providing nursing care to the ill, staffing emergency hospitals, organizing volunteers, coordinating relief efforts, assembling gauze face masks, and operating ambulances. Communities across the nation were overwhelmed by the
  • magnitude of the crisis,
  • Local courts, on the other hand, had more flexibility in how they met the crisis
  • The 1918 influenza pandemic took a horrible toll of death and destruction in the United States
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The American Influenza Epidemic of 1918: A Digital Encyclopedia - 1 views

  • An estimated 650,000 Americans lost their lives to the infamous and tragic 1918-1919 influenza epidemic, a small but significant fraction of the approximately 50 million deaths the disease caused worldwide
  • Communities across the country did what they could to stem the rising tide of illness and death, closing their schools, churches, theaters, shops and saloons
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Fighting Influenza . : The Great Pandemic : : The United States in 1918-1919 : . - 2 views

  • that diseases are caused by microorganisms.
  • Building on this new understanding of disease, scientists and physicians achieved incredible successes, identifying fifty causative agents of diseases ranging from typhoid, tuberculosis, cholera, plague and malaria between 1880 and 1920.
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      what causes the influenza and the sympyoms
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  • scientists mistakenly believed that influenza was caused by a bacteria. not a virus. Called Pfeiffer’s bacillus, this bacteria had been first identified as the cause of influenza
  • Early symptoms of the disease now included a temperature in the range of 102 to 104 degrees.
  • bacillus also failed to cause influenza.
  • sore throat, exhaustion, headache, aching limbs, bloodshot eyes, a cough and occasionally a violent nosebleed.
  • digestive symptoms such as vomiting or diarrhea.
  • As a viral infection, influenza can be prevented by a vaccine and during the early weeks of the pandemic,
  • itizens wear gauze masks. Unfortunately, while masks are highly effective at preventing diseases which are caused by bacteria , they are less effective in providing protection against viral diseases
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Infuenza Song - 0 views

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The Influenza Epidemic of 1918 - 1 views

  • World War I claimed an estimated 16 million lives. The influenza epidemi
  • c that swept the world in 1918 killed an estimated 50 million people. One
  • it had killed more people than any other illness in recorded history.
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  • "three-day fever,"
  • Victims recovered after a few days. When the disease surfaced again that fall, it was far more severe
  • could not identify this disease which was striking so fast and so viciously, eluding treatment and defying control
  • victims died within hours
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